Questions tagged [analytic-synthetic-divide]
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How is the assertion that statements about species are "less necessary" compared to analytic statements justified?
While I was reading Kripke's "Naming and Necessity", he remarked that Hilary Putnam said that statements about species (such as the sentence, "all cats are animals") are "less ...
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Reference request for a formalization of the analytic vs synthetic distinction
The philosopher Kant introduced the now famous analytic vs synthetic distinction. However, he did not gave a formal and rigorous definition of it. I wonder, has any philosopher or mathematician tried ...
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What types of a priori knowledge are there?
Kant famously divided a priori knowledge up into analytic and synthetic knowledge, and I've seen various work comparing a priori knowledge to necessity and other categories of knowing, but I've never ...
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Logical and Analytical truths are not necessarily necessary truths
Zalta claims in his "Logical and Analytic Truths That Are Not
Necessary" that there are logically true statements (logical truths) which are not necessarily true (necessary truths). ...
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Does trying to work in base ω illuminate why Kant judged arithmetic to be synthetic?
Kant says that his thesis is more evident when it comes to addition of larger numbers than, say, 0 + 0 = 0, or then his go-to case of 7 + 5 = 12. In Hamkins' book on the philosophy of mathematics, he ...
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What, according to Kant, is the X that makes it possible to draw the synthetic a priori connection in "Every alteration has a cause"?
In A8 of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant says,
Now from this it is clear: I ) that through analytic judgments our cognition is not amplified at all, but rather the concept, which I already have, is ...
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Confusion about Allison's argument regarding Kant's claim of the syntheticity of an expression of the synthetic principle
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant once expressed his synthetic principle in such a manner:
"The synthetic proposition, that every different empirical consciousness must be combined into a ...
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How does the modern definition of analytic meaning differ from Hume's relation of ideas?
The following AI-generated passage states that Hume did not explicitly use the term analytic proposition as it is used today. My question is, "what's the difference between Hume's definition and ...
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The immediate effect of theories of ontology on our understanding of the world
It is very common to hear people assert that a news article, encyclopedia article, anecdotal account of a situation, history book, etc., is “biased”.
Of course, this motivates the question of what ...
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Why does Quine's argument threaten logical truths?
At the end of this video on Quine's critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction, there is an argument about why logical truths are suspect, because of Quine's critique:
Quine's argument also ...
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Child younger than his father (Synthetical A Priori or A Posteriori)
The proposition "A child is younger than his father" is a posteriori or synthetical a priori?
I think it should be synthetical a priori because the concept "father" means someone ...
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Can, "Intuitions without concepts are blind," be explained in terms of sentences featuring indexicals?
I.e., imagine an assertion like, "This is that." Taken per se, it is like "thoughts without content [that] are empty," but taken de re, is it blind? If I point at some "this&...
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Why can "oneness" not be learned from perception/intuition (Kant)?
I am currently reading Introduction to German Philosophy by Andrew Bowie, and he writes something in the chapter on Kant I don't quite understand. Namely, during a discussion on the First Critique (...
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What is Carnap’s “Principle of Tolerance”, and how did Quine reject it?
Carnap’s Principle of Tolerance and Quine’s Objections
Carnap holds that the role of philosophy is to analyze and clarify the language of
science, and to formulate and recommend alternative languages. ...
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Have any philosophers discussed “coherentizing” as a solution to the “paradox of analysis”?
This is largely a reference request, but supplementary explanations are welcome.
I describe my thoughts on the paradox of analysis here.
I recently tried to derive the form of first-order logic more ...
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